@article{ART002096158},
author={Sunyoon Lee},
title={Phase transition of water and the fluid situations in postwar Japan},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2012},
volume={5},
number={3},
pages={55-73},
doi={10.22901/trans.2012.5.3.55}
TY - JOUR
AU - Sunyoon Lee
TI - Phase transition of water and the fluid situations in postwar Japan
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2012
VL - 5
IS - 3
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 55
EP - 73
SN - 2092-6081
AB - This article argues about the phase transition of water and the destruction of boundaries in Kobo Abe’s texts written in the 1950s from the geopolitical point of view about the postwar period, especially about General Headquarters (GHQ), during the Allied occupation period in Japan. Abe has written about metamorphosis in many of his texts. Metamorphosis has been presented as the process transforming human bodies to things, or presented as the situation itself after the process is completed through the dissolving of boundaries and the reconstruction of the new body. The characters in Abe’s texts are weak and have low-social status, but they have the potential to transform themselves, which shows their dynamism. Heightening the phase transition of things and the violence of the underwater-world, Abe forces us to read the connotations of an unestablished cognition of boundaries shown in postwar society in Japan.
KW - metamorphosis;discontinuity;dissolving of boundaries;Kobo Abe;Underwater City
DO - 10.22901/trans.2012.5.3.55
ER -
Sunyoon Lee. (2012). Phase transition of water and the fluid situations in postwar Japan. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 5(3), 55-73.
Sunyoon Lee. 2012, "Phase transition of water and the fluid situations in postwar Japan", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.5, no.3 pp.55-73. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2012.5.3.55
Sunyoon Lee "Phase transition of water and the fluid situations in postwar Japan" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 5.3 pp.55-73 (2012) : 55.
Sunyoon Lee. Phase transition of water and the fluid situations in postwar Japan. 2012; 5(3), 55-73. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2012.5.3.55
Sunyoon Lee. "Phase transition of water and the fluid situations in postwar Japan" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 5, no.3 (2012) : 55-73.doi: 10.22901/trans.2012.5.3.55
Sunyoon Lee. Phase transition of water and the fluid situations in postwar Japan. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 5(3), 55-73. doi: 10.22901/trans.2012.5.3.55
Sunyoon Lee. Phase transition of water and the fluid situations in postwar Japan. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2012; 5(3) 55-73. doi: 10.22901/trans.2012.5.3.55
Sunyoon Lee. Phase transition of water and the fluid situations in postwar Japan. 2012; 5(3), 55-73. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2012.5.3.55
Sunyoon Lee. "Phase transition of water and the fluid situations in postwar Japan" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 5, no.3 (2012) : 55-73.doi: 10.22901/trans.2012.5.3.55
